Round 3 of the review killed the reopen from b5a1002: flipping an approved
invite back to pending let an unauthenticated POST /auth/register REVOKE a
standing approval for any whitelisted-but-unclaimed address, which then fails
is_allowed() and locks the real owner out of Google sign-in — the primary way
people get in here. It also re-armed the pre-emption window it was meant to
close, because with no SMTP email_verified is set True and the SEC-10 guard the
design leaned on never fires.
Two attempts at fixing the stranded-account UX in the same change both came back
worse than the wart. What remains is the narrow, real bug: the account was
silently rolled back and is now committed. An admin still binds the approval to
the account, exactly as before this branch. UX-25 in the roadmap records the
follow-up and both dead ends so they are not retried.
Also from round 3: the upsert docstring no longer claims the admin UI cannot
reach these accounts (re-entering the address in the same panel's whitelist box
does, and a test now pins it), the release notes are scoped to what the diff
actually changes with the operator note moved where the dialog renders it, and
RateLimiter has unit tests so reset() is not production code only a fixture
calls.
Replaces the activation added in ea931dc, which round 2 of the review showed was
a real weakening: on a no-SMTP instance it made a standing whitelist entry a
bearer grant — the first anonymous party to register an approved-but-unclaimed
address got an immediately usable account under that identity, with no
attestation, no admin action and no signal anywhere. The verify-time activation
had the same shape one step removed, and neither site ran the SEC-10 preset-
password guard or left an audit trail.
Keep a human in the loop instead. An approval granted before any account existed
was a decision about the ADDRESS, so registration reopens the invite
(upsert_pending_invite gains revive_approved, used only by the register worker).
The request lands in the Access-requests queue, approving it runs
_activate_user_by_email — and with it revoke_preset_password_if_unverified — and
the account activates. One mechanism, already audited, no new grant path, and
the "awaiting admin approval" copy is honest again.
The explicit commit from the previous commit still matters: with an invite
already pending, upsert returns without committing and _issue_token is gated on
SMTP, so a no-SMTP registration was still being rolled back.
Also from round 2: gate the admin notice on a fresh decision (matching the two
other upsert callers) so a retry no longer re-pings every admin, and reset the
module-level rate limiters between tests — the suite pooled every login into one
300s window and was two logins short of failing an unrelated test with a 429.
Follow-up to the commit fix, from the deep-review. Persisting the account was
only half the story: when the admin had approved the address BEFORE the person
registered, the account landed is_active=False against an invite that is no
longer pending — absent from the Access-requests queue, and approve_invite 409s
on an already-decided invite. The sign-up worked and still could not sign in.
Derive activation from is_allowed() at the moment ownership is attested:
- verify_email_confirm activates a pre-approved account when the emailed link is
confirmed (only the mailbox owner can follow it), so SEC-10 stays intact;
- _register_account activates only when there is no SMTP to verify with, where
the admin whitelist is by design the sole gate — the same one add_invite
already activates on.
Tests: the pre-approved no-SMTP case and the verify-activates case are real
regression tests (both fail without this change); guards cover the unknown-email
and denied->pending branches, verification of an unapproved account, and the
first end-to-end coverage of the /auth/register route and its
allow_registration gate. Release notes rewritten — the previous entry miscounted
its regression tests and advertised an email fix this release has no code for.
_register_account() flushed the new User but relied on someone else to commit:
upsert_pending_invite() commits only when it actually writes an invite row, and
_issue_token() runs only when SMTP is enabled. For an email an admin had ALREADY
approved, on an instance where email is unavailable, neither fired — the session
closed and the account was rolled back. The would-be user got the uniform "ok"
and no account, could not sign in, and re-registering was a silent no-op.
Commit explicitly after the invite upsert (a no-op when upsert already committed
the same transaction). Three DB-lane regression tests cover the pre-approved
no-SMTP path (fails without the fix), the unknown-email path that always worked,
and the pre-approved path with SMTP on.
hls.js startPosition:0 so the transcode/remux HLS session starts VOD-style
at the requested position instead of chasing the live edge of the growing
EVENT playlist.
Bundles the whole E7 epic (library metadata, crop fix, share-by-default, in-app player,
browser-playable guarantee, local upload) plus the deep-review hardening. Bump VERSION and
add the 0.76.0 release-notes entry (RELEASE_NOTES[0] must match VERSION).
Fixes from several multi-agent deep-review passes over the E8 feed-filtering &
channel-manager epic (S1-S4):
- feed_years buckets by UTC year to match the UTC-pinned year-filter bounds
- tag suggestions: examples ∩ subscribed (drop tagged-then-unsubscribed channels
from the profile denominator); exclude hidden channels as suggestion targets
- channel manager: restore ghost chips + surface an error toast on a failed tag accept
- year filter: debounce the search term so the per-year facet doesn't refetch per keystroke
- channel tags: aria-label the "+N" overflow pills
- extract useTagSuggestions hook; add backend + hook tests (profile boundaries, cap,
language exclusion, unsubscribed/hidden handling, UTC bucketing, bulk-accept)
Bump VERSION to 0.73.0 + release notes.
Bump VERSION to 0.70.0 and add the user-facing release-notes entry for the E4
Frontend Platform epic: full bookmarkable/shareable address-bar URLs (retiring the
"Share view" button), touch-visible card action buttons with a shape (not
colour-only) watched marker, and the bookmark-page-closes-on-modal-close fix — over
a large internal front-end refactor (god-component splits, usePref, useUrlMirror,
FilterRail, Modal focus). No DB migration.
Three prod bug fixes: local-poster-primary Library thumbnails, viewport-scaled
feed read-ahead (fixes the fast-scroll "Load more" stall), and the channel About
popover fitting/blank-line cleanup.
Bump VERSION 0.67.0 -> 0.68.0 and add the user-facing release-notes entry for
the E2 epic (feed sort index, keyset/NOT NULL, search GIN + state inner-joins,
single /feed/summary pass, no card-action refetch storm, job partial indexes).
Bump VERSION 0.66.0 -> 0.67.0 and add the user-facing release-notes entry for
the E1 Foundation epic (data-safety fixes, account-switch + search-error fixes,
graceful key-mismatch degrade; plus the security/test-net/CI/repro chores).
Ships the E5 sprint stack (S1–S7): field-scoped Plex search + typeahead, cast &
crew pages, the HU-overlay Hungarian metadata + language-aware serving, the
IMDb/audience rating split, the toolbar relocation, and the narrow/mobile header
fix — plus the underlying Plex-module refactors (feedquery/plex.cards/plex.query
extraction, db.query→2.0 select).
- VERSION 0.65.2 → 0.66.0
- releaseNotes.ts: 0.66.0 user-facing entry
- prettier-format the E5-touched frontend files (release hygiene)
Merged main (0.65.2 download-gc hotfix) in first; no code conflicts (E5 is
Plex-only, the hotfix was notifications/downloads).
Bumps VERSION to 0.65.1 and adds the release note for the backfill fix
(immediate "get full history" now completes channels over ~3000 videos in
one run) plus the per-page durability + centralized reserve-guard hardening.
Bump VERSION to 0.65.0 and add the user-facing release notes for R14
(zoom-fit manager table, ✓ charm, N/S/L moved to the channel page,
live-refresh, immediate "get full history").
Bump VERSION to 0.64.0 and add the user-facing release-notes entry for
the R13 sprint (unified sort/filter controls, Hidden channels tab,
channel-manager toolbar declutter, filter-rail jitter fix).
VERSION bump + chores release note for the R10 .btn-primary/.btn-danger/.btn-warn
recipe unification (refactor; a few primary buttons gained the standard hover).
The app-wide 'glass over image' tier: panels stay near-opaque (surface 90%, menu 100%)
so chrome text is readable, but glass-card drops to 50% so the per-scheme backdrop image
gently shows through the feed cards (blur 22, inset 10). User-tuned via the live GlassTuner
and validated ("the image just barely shows through, text still readable"); supersedes the
uniform-88% pass that had killed the image-through-cards look. Only the data-backdrop=on
tier — :root (image off) and .glass-media (Plex art) unchanged.
The surface's onMouseLeave nulled hoverIndex, so moving the pointer off a menu snapped the highlight
back to activeIndex — the first item in a menu with a free-text input (ChannelTags), where the field
swallows arrow keys so there is no list-nav holding a keyboard position. The keyboard and typeahead
already reclaim the highlight by nulling hoverIndex in onNavigate/onMatch, so the mouseleave reset was
redundant; dropping it keeps the last hover. 0.60.3.
Root cause: html[data-backdrop="on"] and .glass-media shared ONE translucent tier, so a value tuned for
Plex art (meant to show its poster through) was forced onto the whole app — over the feed, the nav and
popovers read straight through it. Split them: the app-wide background-image tier is now near-opaque
(surface 88% / card 90% / menu 93% / blur 22px), while the Plex-art tier stays translucent (72/80/85/14).
Tuned live on the user's prod session (50% -> 72% was still too see-through; 88% reads clean). 0.60.2.
With a background image on, glass surfaces used surface-alpha 50% + 10px blur, so the feed read
straight THROUGH the nav/menus/popovers (user-reported: distractingly transparent). Raised to
72%/80%/85% + 14px blur — the backdrop image still shows as soft colour, but content behind no longer
punches through. Verified in-browser: nav bg alpha 0.5 -> 0.72, no inline override on a clean pref.
Cuts the v4 (Tailwind migration) + focus/a11y foundation work for release. User-facing note covers the
app-wide keyboard-focus ring, steadier menu highlights, the three previously-invisible focus inputs,
and keyboard-reachable saved-view row actions; the v4 migration and dead-style cleanup are listed as
chores.
peter